Scottish artist Martin Boyce was born in 1957 and his oeuvre features sculptures and installations. He was the winner of the 2011 Turner prize. Boyce created We are shipwrecked and landlocked for Kaldor’s 18^th project, an installation in Old Melbourne Goal’s courtyard. It’s stylised form references the modernist sculpture Exposition des arts décoratifs, 1925 by Joël and Jan Martel.

This sculpture interacts with the landscape, existing in a place between a place between the real and the imaginary, which is achieved by how he manipulates basic shape referencing the concrete trees from Exposition des arts décoratifs by reshaping them which contrasts the surrounding landscape. This juxtaposition creates a surreal feeling which is emphasised that suggests the sculpture is not a natural element of the landscape. A metal fence and mesh-wire rubbish bins are the main materials used in this sculpture.